I’m beginning to think games journalists are just dumb-dumb-dummies these days. Nobody can ever seem to quite understand what sony’s saying when they say that a console has a 10 year shelf life.They talk about the PS4 here and perpetuate the whole “PS4 in 2016” line.That’s NOT what sony means when they say their consoles have a 10 year shelf life. Look at their history.PS1, released in 1994 at around $300-400.

A couple well known game companies are holding off on PS3 games for at least a few months. How good are these companies really, though? SNK and Atari are both former console manufacturers themselves. Really though, they haven’t done much recently that would be the least worry to most people. SNK’s best game, Crystalis, is nearly 17 years old now. Since then they have primarily put out 2d fighter game after 2d fighter game.

Texas, I switched planes there and had lunch at BurgerKing while waiting for the plane to arrive…Kansas I vaguely remember, but I can’t remember if we actually went INTO kansas or just took our picture at the “now entering kansas” sign.New Mexico, I drove through there 3 times. Two of the times we went to 4 corners thing. The third time they had turned it into a tourist trap and were charging $20 per car to go in.

Cell Processor Boards for Xeon and Opteron systems.(Link Dead)Looks like these guys are gobbling up a portion of the 8 working SPE output. The board also has 1gb of XDR and 4gb of DDR memory. (Link dead)Other docs from mercury, including some benchmarks about FFT performance and the like.

Finished Grandia 3. It’s definitely better than the various reviews claim. It’s combat system is much better than Grandia 2 was. It clocks in at just about 45 hours. I’m not sure how you could finish it off much faster even with the various reviews giving 30-35 hour times to it. Now? I guess I’ll finish FF4. Maybe I can try and finish Dark Cloud 2…

FF3 for the DS was delayed… all the way back to November.That sucks primarily because of all the other things being released near november. FF12, for example. The PS3 as yet another potential example. I don’t think I’ll have the cash for everything…Plus, it leaves a gaping hole in new games until the end of october. I guess I could get Disgaea 2 near the end of next month, or pick up Atelier Iris 2.

One of the best arguments I’ve heard about free trade yet, and it’s not even really about free trade. It’s about civilization.Every time two people come together and trade, wealth is created. Out of thin air. By magic. Every trade, every bit or work done by every human on the planet increases the complexity and order of the whole, and thus makes it more valuable. This is a rich subject, one we will return to in a following chapter.

250gig HD $82ATI Chipset MB $57Hauppauge MCE 150 PVR $601GB Ram $913800+x2 AMD64 $169Crappy vid card with TV out $47Total with shipping: $521Ruri’s current board would go into a new set-top box for the TV. :)That project?Antec Overture Case $105Maybe I could switch it around and use the Antec Aria cube as the set-top box instead?*sigh* still out of reach for a few months.

I’m beginning to think that 80% of the world’s problems are caused by reporters who don’t even really know what they’re talking about. Take this flawed article with a flawed headline. "Works flawlessly 20% of the time?“ That’s almost certain to be misunderstood. Perhaps they should have said that 20% of PS3 cell processors produced will have no silicon defects. That would be a far more accurate. If he had read more of his source article he would have seen that one of the benefits of the Cell chip is that over 2/3rds of its surface area are redundant.